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单词 canalwise
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canalwise
canalwise adv. by means of a canal; with regard to, or in the manner of, a canal or canals.Earliest in figurative context. N.E.D. (1888) records this word as canal-ways, based on a misreading of quot. 1831.
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1831 Westm. Rev. Jan. 99 If the Chinese should be found some morning to have..conveyed their moral government canal-wise to the other side of the Great Wall.
1908 S. R. Crockett Deep Moat Grange xi. 93 There is..always some water in the Lane, which trenches the meadows and runs canalwise through the fringing woods.
1973 Cumberland (Maryland) Evening Times 30 Apr. 11/6 We are now at a critical period of time if we hope to have anything canalwise by the Bicentennial celebration in 1976.
2015 H. May Rough Cut i. 4 Canal wise, there was little ahead, or behind for that matter, for many miles.
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